Lots of Stuff

Hospital

Firstly, my father gave me a ring this evening. My grandmother is apararently in Hospital right now. Admitted yesterday I think. She has a bleed on the brain somewhere, but is now sitting up in bed so that is good. She was in the high dependancy ward but aparently they are moving her to a general ward. Not good, but it could be a lot worse. My grandmother on my mothers side had a similar thing for a number of years without much problem.

Talk

My talk is on at 10:00 to 10:55AM on sunday morning. I will be staying at a friends house saturday night, and will work out what I am talking on then. Sounds hap-hazzard. Well, not really. I am to the point where I only need 3-4 minutes notice to talk for an hour and a half on a subject – and that is only to load the powerpoint slides.

Are you an Alien

I was just reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, and it mentioned that visitors to Norway are called Aliens. The USA does the same thing. Back in 1997 I was going there on a holiday, and as a licensed Amateur Radio operator, I decided that I would buy a handheld radio over there and use it. To do this I needed to apply for a license. I promptly got it, and in bold letters at the top it said:-
“ALIEN LICENSE”
Obviously I was allowed to be an Alien.

Work

I actually comissioned some software that I got written at the beginning of January for the business. There are a few issues here and there that I am working on fixing when I find them but I am amazed at how powerful the software really is. It has exceeded my expectations.

Now all I need to do is actually document the work there – without documentation I will have issues over the coming months and years getting the software to work how I want it to. And like all of us, we are getting older and forget the details of things.

Today I started making a change. Something seemed to me to be inconsistant. Then when I had almost done all the work on the change I realised that the change I was making did not actually make sense, and there was not much use in making the change. Sorry about talking in riddles but the work is commercially sensative, and even if it wasn’t there would need to be lots of explanations to explain the situation anyway.

Mobile Phone

My phone has turned itself off twice today. Not sure why, but it has just gone black for no reason. Maybe it has a ‘Peril Sensative Screen’ where it works out that I realy dont want to answer the call so turns the phone off 🙂 It tends to do it at all the wrong times. In this case it is probably a good case for charging the phone. In case anyone is interested it is a Nokia 6600